I'm almost done!!!  All that's left to do is stain the landing and the baseboard caps (which are sitting in the dining room), then s...

The weather cleared up, so after work I came home and started staining the staircase.  I did the newel post, railing, "front" of t...

John the handyman came over as promised on Wednesday morning at about 8:30 am.  He was still there when I got home from work at about 3:15 p...

But since I'm 7 months pregnant, I figure I'm entitled to cheat just a little bit... One of my pet projects has always been the st...

My two weeks didn't go quite the way I had planned.  I accomplished both more and less than I had hoped for. Here is the list of possi...

Here are a few photos of the disassembled stairway: After the photo, Shyane vacuumed out the dirt and nastiness from the lath.  It's mu...

Ugh, I'm beat.   Starting around 1 pm, Shayne and I finished sanding the baseboard-type woodwork on the laft side of the stairs.  Then w...

Yes, I know that today should really be day 4. Day 1 I spent catching up on housework; I spent most of last week in Minnesota for a class, p...

On Monday night, Shayne and I had a little sanding party. The treads of the bottom 10 steps (we have 16 total) are sanded. He bought a pad...

Now that the office is pretty much prepped and waiting for skimcoating, I've been anxious to start on something new. The stairway still...

I am finally done with the banister and spindles. Finally. I still have a bit to do on the newel post and the piece where the banister meets...

I thought I had posted these the other day, but evidently I forgot... For any interested parties, here are photos of the stairway as it stan...

Stripping the staircase is one of those projects that I know will completely change the character of my home. Multiple layers of glossy whit...

A few months ago, I posted an entry about the difficulties of stripping the stairway. It's not the stairs themselves but the railing, ba...